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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAFFITJURSDAYS NCA EWIDE

THE EMPRESS”—“ X WANG TAI" | Had she continued on her course, she would |

COLLISION.

PROCEEDINGS IN ADMIRALTY.

Shanghai, 10th November, Before His Honour Sir Hiram Shaw Wilkinson, Chief Justice and Commander Moore, R.N., H.M,S. Strias, Naval, Assessor.

The Imperial Chinese. Government, the owners of the cruiser Kwang Tai v, the owners of the steamer Empress of India.

Mr. A. S. P. White Cooper and Mr. W. North Symonds appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., and Mr. W. A. C. Platt' for the defendant company,

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(Continued from Yesterday.) Cross-examined: He can give no reason for the vessel porting her course.

Air, Duvics, sworn, said that the collision. "occurred it minute after the order of hard astero was given. As the night was a clear one, the distance of two ships' lengths which separated the two vesscis seemed a very safo onc, although it left but a narrow margin. Ile heard the Captain say I stay. here." He did not bear him, say that "I remain here until every one has got off?" It is very unlikely that be could hear anything as he was just beneath the bridge in one of the boate. It took some timo for the other people on the cruiser to make up their minds to come down. This would be between three and five minutes before the cruiser Bank. Cross-examined: He canaot say from actual experience how long it would take the Empress to stop. He had not lost sight of the Kwangtai for many seconds,

Witness was of opinion that the only way in which a collision could be avoided would be to port. From that moment the vessel began to swing. If he had not allowed her to do so and the vessel had ported, he was of opinion that a collision would inevitably have hap- pened. The vessel's stem would have been struck which would have caused a much more serious collision. Up to that time both vessels were steering in the same direction, Just about that time a junk was sighted. The Kwangtal still continued her course. He did not then think it necessary to make any special deviation. He did not recollect any of the bearings taken by him. He reported to the Captain that the Kwangtai was in sight. Captain Marshall asked him! what the light was; be told him it was the stern light of a steamer. He, witness, knew his vessel was going at greater speed than the other,

have cleared the junk by 100 to 200 yards, After the collision happened he went on board

Intimations.

CONFIDENCE

Intimations.

the Kwangtal he took away 55 men from her. said Lord Chatham," a plant of slow MADAM FLINT & CO.

He had plenty of room on his boat to taks growth." People belleve in things that they another 20 people; he had great difficulty in, and in a broad sense they are right. What is sometimes called blind "faith is, not taking the man off the Kwangtai they were faith at all. There must be reason and fact to apparently too frightened to jump from the form a foundation for trust. In regard to a ship into the boat.

medicine or remedy, for example, people ask, "Has it cured others? Have cases like mine. been relieved by it? Is it in harmony with the truths of modem science, and has it a record above suspician? If so, it is worthy of confiderice; and if I am ever attacked by any of the maladies for which it is commended i shall resort to u in'full belief in its power to held me." On these lines”

COMMERCE IN CHINA.

Cross-examined: The official log was written up by the second officer; he told him what to write. The entries were made the next day when they got into Hongkong. Since the collision the Empress had been to and from Vancouver. The same officers were on board. Most certainly they had a good deal to say to WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION each other about the collision.-Shanghai | has won its high reputation among medical men, and the people of all civilized countries. Mercury.

They trust it for the same reason that they trust in the familiar laws of nature or in the This effective action of common things. remedy is palatable as honey and contains the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod The Sin Wen Pao is informed that Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod the newly established Board of Com-livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Mait and merce has instructed the Chinese ministers wild Cherry. It quickly eradicates, the accredited to different countries and the poisonous, disease-breeding acids and other commercial agent at Vladivostock to select toxic matters from the system; regulates and from their respective suites a member versed promotes the normal action of the organs, and interested in commercial affairs, whose gives vigorous appetite and digestion, and is infallible in Prostration-following Fever, etc. duty is to study and investigate into the com---Scrofula, Influenza, Wasting Diseases. mercial conditions of his nationals in the Throat and Lung Troubles, etc. Dr. W. A. country he is in, and also of the merchants of Young, of Canada, says: "Your tasteless pre- that country, and report them periodically to Paration of cod liver oil has given me uniformly satisfactory results, my patients his minister who will transmit them to the having been of all ages." It is a product of Board at Peking. The above shall also form the skill and science of to-day and is successful ons of the duties of the Chinese Consuls after the old style modes of treatment have been appealed to in vain. To try it is to trust- to it forever after. It cannot disappoint, Effective from the first dose. Sold by chemists here and everywhere and A. S. Waton & Co., Limited.

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THE CURRENCY QUESTION..

The Department of state affairs and the Finance Department have decided to coin dollars of the value of one tael and should these find a circulation throughout the Empire. those dollars of 7 mace and 2 candareens coined in the different Provincial mints and now in circulation are to be redeemed, melted and recoined into dollars of the bigher denomin atian.

The engine of the coming plant of the pro- posed Mint is to be of one hundred horse power and able to turn out in one day 800,000 silver and copper coins. The Mint is to be erected-in Tientsin and foundation work was begun on the 1st instant when Na Tung, the President of the Board of Revenue, was present,

CHINA'S FOREIGN TRADE.

Mr. J. W. Jamieson, commercial attaché, at the British Legation at Peking, in a lengthy repo:t, emphasises the fact that Great Britain has more interest in the foreign trade of China than is gencraily assumed, and some points to

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Arthur Greenstock, duly sworn, said he was the 3rd officer on board the Empress of India. He had served on board the vessel in that capacity for about two years. He had held his certificate for nearly ten year. Previous to joining the Canadian Pacific Railway he had been three years in the Royal Naval Reserve. He had been an officer in the Union line forbe noted by British traders are:- five years. On the night of the collision his watch was from 8 o'clock. Mr. Davis was the senior officer. The duties of the junior officer of the watch were to check the compass errors, visit the rounds, see to the steering being pro-

na decline in the importation of Indian perly and to see that the regulation fights were burning brightly, and, generally opium in the last ten years has been 28,4 per. speaking, to look after the well-being and cent, but since 1897 the average annual quan- safety of the ship. These are the instructions.tity imported has remained steady-at about to the junior officer of the watch.. On the

As to shipping, the British share, which in T' night of the collision he first sighted the Kwangtai at 9.45. He saw her astern. To1883 was 62.19 per cent., and in 1892 65.61, W&S him the course of that vessel appeared to helast year 50 per cent. Japanese shipping in slightly opening up on his bow. From the the same period rose from 1.12 to 14 per ceat., time he saw the Kwangtai she appeared and German from 5.08 to 13 per cent.

to be slightly opening on his bow. He left the bridge at 20 to go to his rounds, ife was away for 20 minutes. On his return he went into the chart-room to enter into the log that the lights were correct. He then beatd the order of "stop" from the senior officer of the watch. He followed the Captain from the chart-room to the bridge. He heard Mr. Davis. ask why he stopped and he was told it was for a junk, The junk was pointed out to the Captain. It was then Bituated a little more than

61.000 cwt,

In the coasting trade the British flag covers 66 and the Japanese 16.5 per cent. of the whole.

LAUNCH OF THE "OTOWAŁ ·

JAPAN'S NEWEST CRUISER.

Monday (and Nov.) saw the successful launching from the Yokosuka Navel yard of fapan's newest cruiser, the Otowa. The oc

ured by the presence of H.M, the Emperor, he left Tokyo by train that morning for the

a point on his starboard bow between thecasion was the more notable since it was hon- courses of the Empress and the Kwangtai The junk was steering, as far as he could gather, S.W. from the land on the port tack, He noticed that the Junk was two or three points on the starboard bow. From that point

she was dropping out of the starboard bow all the time. He heard the order of "Starboard"

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more than average.length.

The Emperor arrived at Yokosuka about 11.30 am. and drove to the dockyard through lines of bluejackets and garrison artillery-men. ELECTRIC SUPPLIES OF EVERY DES He lunched at the Admiralty office and soon afterward the ceremony of launching was gone through without a hitch,

shortly followed by Hard a starboard" given. The orders were given in quick succession. In regard to orders given to the engine room, he saw the Captain go to the port engine telegraph and give the order "Port astern." Immediately afterwards he telegraphed "Hard | tons displacement, 10,000 horse-power, and astern." When these orders were given he noticed the Kwangtai was getting nearer and

The Otowa is of slightly more than 3,000

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The vessel will be engined and armed at that she had apparently starboarded. At that Yokosuka and is expected to be ready for service INSULATORS, moment he did not see any other lights on the within a year from the date of launching. There Kwangtai. He saw her red light. He saw are two other. cruisers now being armed at the two vessels collide. (Witness here showed Yokosuka and Kure respectively. These are by the models how the collision occurred, to be ready for sea in January next. It is report. the Chinese officers in court showing greated that these vessels will each be armed with interest in his evidence.) At the time of the contact, both vessels heeled over at an angle of about 45′′. His vesaal heeled over to port and the Kwangtai siewed around on her side. After that her bow swung off. At that timo be beard, the port telegraph: ring and saw, it' Indicating full speed ahead in answer from the engine room. The starboard engine had been stopped. The body of the Kwangtai first struck the waist of the Empress,

The port bow of the Kwangtal struck the -Empress below the bridge. The effect of the port engine of the Empress being reversed was that the bow, swung away from the Kwangtai, Before the Kwangtai changed her course, in

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his opinion there was no danger whatever of a The C. N. Co.'s as. Sungklang left Manila

colilaton, is dit before the junk, was seen. The junk was noticed four or five minutes before the collision. It was 1] to 2 minutes before the

FIRE, &c., &c.,

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ELECTRIC BELL INSTALLATIONS, Eracted and kept in 'order.

Estimates given for all kinds of Electrical work,

for this port on 18th inst, and is expected to Trained Mechanicians sent to Out-Porta to he arrive here on 21st inst., at daylighti

up Installations if required. - -

The N. Y. K. 8.8. Shinano Maru (American Line) left Shanghai for this port to-day, and Is

collision that he noticed the Kwangial change expected to arrive here on 22nd inst, a.m. her course towards him. He considered that

The N. Y. K. 1.3. Hiroshima Maru (Bom- NOTE ADDRESS, ICE HOUSE ROAD,

if both vessels bad kept their courses straight bay Line) left Singapore for this port on the ahead, and had the Kwangtai not changed her | 17th Inst., and is expected to arrive here on course for the junk, they would have passed 2nd inst

The P. M. S. S, Co.'s a Coptic with mails, one another. by a quarter of a mile clear. There was no necessity whatever for the, from San Francisco to the stat uit, via Honolulu, has arrived at Yokohama, and leaves Kwangtal to starboard for the junks under for this port via Inland Sea, Kobe, Nagasaki ordinary circumstances she should have portad. I and Shanghal, on 20ths inst,

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Mme. Patti says that "the Apollo never bas given her the slightest trouble and that the new concert grand is one of the most wonder- ful and perfect piano-players that she has ever seen."

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